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16 Feb, 4 tweets, 1 min read
1. Here's a #prayer update on Brian, the 37yo who has been hospitalized with COVID-19 & its aftereffects for 17-weeks.

Surgeons were unable to put a wound vac in his back last Friday because the equipment used at the...
2. ...transition hospital where he's been a patient for some time is incompatible with the vac that would have been installed at the major hospital to which he went for the procedure.

However, a wound vac was installed at the transition hospital yesterday...
3. ...Also yesterday, Brian was running a temperature, apparently because of a new case of bacterial pneumonia. However, his temperature is down today.

He remains in the transition hospital ICU following last week's surgical procedure and is 80%-dependent on the ventilator...
4. ...Please #pray for healing for Brian, guidance for his caregivers, and encouragement for his family.

Thank you!

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Greatest: Washington, Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt, Eisenhower

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